With the abundance of media resources at our fingertips, we must have a plan to identify which media sources are quality. When helping children increase their literary skills, only quality media sources should be used in the classroom and recommended to families. In this assignment, you will practice evaluating an app or website aimed at teaching literature to young children, determining whether it is quality.

To prepare for this assignment,

Read A Checklist for Evaluating Diverse Childrens Media
Review The DIG Checklist for Inclusive, High-Quality Childrens Media
Locate one app or website aimed at teaching literature to young children.
Review the Evaluating Quality Media Assignment Template that you will use to complete this assignment.

In your paper

Provide the name of the media source you chose.
Evaluate the media source with each provided criterion found in the template.
List two additional questions you might ask to determine the quality of the media source.
Defend whether this source is quality media.

https://www.joinkidmap.org/digchecklist/
https://joanganzcooneycenter.org/2017/05/08/a-checklist-for-evaluating-diverse-childrens-media/

Family literacy emphasizes reading and writing in the home. It is important for parents to promote literacy in the home, but they do not always know what resources they can use with their children. The purpose of this assignment is to increase your knowledge of community resources, online resources, and quality media you could provide to parents in order to promote the literacy development of children in the home.

To prepare for this,

Review the Literacy Resources Assignment Template that you will use to complete this assignment.
Identify two quality media resources, two community resources, and six online resources that you could provide to parentsto promote their childs literacy development in the home. (Be mindful that free resources are the most helpful for families.)
In your paper,

Describe each resource (two media, two community, and six online) you located in the preparation section.
Explain how parents can use each resource to promote a childs literacy development.